ARCHITECTURE “The traffic in Berlin is frustrating.”11/2/2014In Berlin, traffic often is challenging. In an interview, Susi Nestraschil talks about her own ways through the urban jungle and possibilities to improve them.
ARCHITECTURE Using the social status to help society10/26/2014Team Seoul uses the car to promote social engagement as a status symbol in Korea.
ARCHITECTURE From “Slummerville” to “boom town”10/19/2014Philip Parsons, head of Team Boston, explains the opportunities of a close collaboration between urban designers and traffic planners.
ARCHITECTURE Architecture with added value 10/15/2014Just because a building looks good in a photograph doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good architecture. The winning projects in the various categories of the Zumtobel Group Award are now demonstrating what it takes to gain an extended understanding of planning and building.
ARCHITECTURE Smart elevators as a model for autonomous transport10/5/2014Elevators, that know the destination of passengers, are highly efficient. Could this principle work for cars, too? Martin Lewicki talked to Paul Friedli about driverless transport systems.
ARCHITECTURE Energy remains within the interior10/3/2014Vitra Design Museum is focusing on Alvar Aalto. And the result is more than just another show on that Grand Old Master of Modernism.
ARCHITECTURE The European Answer to Silicon Valley9/29/2014When Berlin´s new airport BER is in use, what will happen with the former area of the Berlin airport Berlin-Tegel?
ARCHITECTURE Playing on the roads9/15/2014Motivation is a central aspect of “gameful design” and intends to have a positive influence on user´s behavior.
ARCHITECTURE A car for your handbag9/7/2014The divisible car as a new interpretation of car sharing? Charlotte Malz talked to Prof. Fügener about concepts of future mobility.
ARCHITECTURE The Secret of Happy Cities9/1/2014What kind of urban realm makes you feel good? Scientists have developed different methods to demonstrate the psychological impact of cities on their inhabitants.
ARCHITECTURE Hot Spots: The ideal summer for architects8/29/2014Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam presents architects’ drawings of summer dreams – and escorts us sweetly into the balmy late summer.
ARCHITECTURE What lodged in Ateliermob´s mind:8/24/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: The Bridal Veil of Sancy8/22/2014Architect Louis Sicard has installed a shower in the Auvergne for elves, fairies, dwarves and hikers.
FEATURED Libeskind’s façade labyrinth8/19/2014The façade of the Kö-Bogen in Dusseldorf bears Daniel Libeskind’s typical formal language – the professionals at Lindner Fassaden GmbH were responsible for project planning and realization.
ARCHITECTURE What lodged in Ross Lovegrove`s mind:8/17/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: Water over wine8/15/2014Enjoy the hot summer in the cool world of wine cellars: The architecture of the VIK vineyard Smiljan Radić designed in Chile’s Millahue valley truly refreshes the senses.
ARCHITECTURE Please swarm out8/11/2014Team Berlin: The city as a nervous system requires a different kind of swarming behavior.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: In the shadow of the giant mushroom8/8/2014In the inner courtyard of the MoMA PS1 David Benjamin’s installation provides welcome shade in the summer heat, thanks to a weave made of thousands of microorganisms.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: a Modernist dip8/4/2014Guaranteed no “themed giant flumes” or “hot whirlpool” at Álvaro Siza’s “Piscinas de Marés”. Here you can immerse yourself in Portuguese Modernism.
ARCHITECTURE Trade off8/1/2014May 28-30, 2014: Attending the third “Global Infrastructure Initiative” in Rio de Janeiro, organized by McKinsey & Co. The gathering is dominated by an almost limitless optimism about the blessings of technology and the belief that innovation by the infrastructure sector (coupled to extravagant funds) will eventually cure all the contemporary city’s ails…
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: A pool in the desert7/30/2014Life is pretty hot in the desert, at least during the day. So what could be more handy than a pool to cool off in. Or to lie in pondering life, the universe. Just be sure to remember the key.
ARCHITECTURE The new Henninger Turm remains a landmark7/28/2014For the architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt planning a high-rise is normally a fascinating task. In designing the new Henninger Turm in Frankfurt/Main they show how living in a high-rise can be both personalized and attractive.
ARCHITECTURE Hot Spots: swimming in the city or in the river7/18/2014Is there anything nicer than having a cool dip on a scorchingly hot day? Best of all downtown.
ARCHITECTURE Hot Spots: The One-Man Sauna7/14/2014Forget about the mixed sauna! In Bochum, people not only analyze urban interstices, they also get in a sweat all by themselves.
ARCHITECTURE The thing inside the sawmill7/11/2014Madrid’s architect duo of Langarita Navarro is among the emerging young representatives of the “Movida Madrileña”: Their latest work, the Medialab building for Prado, stands for an unpretentious and ironic take on history.
ARCHITECTURE Cosmopoverty7/2/2014Urban hurrah or unhappy rural exodus? People who live in the city are considered cosmopolitan. And yet: The flipside of this humungous influx to the cities reveals quite a different kind of international living: poor cosmopolitans, deprived of urban benefits.
FEATURED New Basel Working World7/1/2014For insurance company Basler Versicherungen Total Office Management developed a flexible office concept. The pilot project features office furniture from the Flow Work System range by Lista Office LO.
ARCHITECTURE Lively, spontaneous, Brazilian6/30/2014The “Lina Bo Bardi: Together” exhibition at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) in Berlin focuses on an architect who came to fame as a passionate champion of subsidized building in Brazil. Yet she remained an outsider at the “Escola Paulista”.
ARCHITECTURE Fast tube to enjoyment6/29/2014Astonishing things are happening on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. Anyone climbing Carsten Höller’s “Slide Tower” will find not just an amazing view beckoning, but a slide with a great ride down. Added to which, grand master Álvaro Siza has created a new promenade that offers a novel route round the campus.
ARCHITECTURE Cocoon by fashion patterns6/27/2014Compared to last year’s Serpentine Pavilions, the new one by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić’s is certainly the most astounding and unpredictable yet.
